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In a prime example of why and how politics adversely affects sports, the Pakistan blind cricket team found themselves stranded in Sri Lanka after they swept the ODI series clean (3-0) on their tour to the island nation.
Blind Cricket Series: #Pakistan beat #SriLanka by 8 wicketshttps://t.co/4rclv6qZDa ððð
— Radio Pakistan (@RadioPakistan) February 21, 2019
Due to the ongoing political and military tension between India and Pakistan, the Sri Lankan Airlines cancelled all flights going to the city of Lahore. As a result, the blind cricketers of the country are unable to go back home and are involuntarily bearing added expenditure due to the extended stay.
“They have been forced to stay longer and also have to pay additional expenditure,” Chaminda Pushpakumara, the manager of the blind cricket team said.
Even though the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council has requested the Sri Lankan government for assistance, the financial toll of the athletes, who earn a fraction of what the visually-able cricketers make, has been immense.
As admitted by Pushpakumara himself, the visiting athletes had already paid for their flight tickets to Sri Lanka.
On the other hand, the escalating border tensions have also led to the Pakistani government shutting down their entire airspace and cancelling all domestic and international flights, as a result of which players are finding it extremely difficult to travel to different cities for the Pakistan Super League (PSL).
Every PSL match that was scheduled to take place in Lahore too, has been moved to Karachi.
This is why even the notion of war is always a bad idea. While the militaries are at each other's throats, it is the common and the unprivileged people who lose their lives or livelihood and are branded under “collateral damage”.
If the people halted in Sri Lanka belonged to the country's national team, it still would not have been that concerning keeping in mind the fact that they are well paid and can afford additional expenditures, but our hearts go out to the these athletes who have been stranded on their own in a foreign land, without any information of what is going on in their nation where they have family.

Let's face it, it has not been the best of days for the Chelsea Football Club in the recent past. After facing a crushing 6-0 defeat at the hands of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City a couple of weeks ago, the Blues saw another internal drama take the centre stage when goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga decided to openly dishonour his manager Maurizio Sarri during the Carabao Cup final against the Citizens.
However, it seems as if the Football Gods had had enough fun with the struggling Chelsea FC and decided to provide them with some sort of reimbursement. In came Tottenham Hotspur Right Wing-Back Kieran Trippier.
In an English Premier League match up early this morning, Tottenham Hotspur (EPL Rank 3) went head to head against Chelsea FC (EPL Rank 6) and lost 0-2 to the Blues in spectacular fashion. However, a lot of credit for Chelsea's win must go to the Hotspur defender Trippier who did exactly the opposite of what his job description said he does: defend his side of the goal.
Trippier. pic.twitter.com/bNQmN3aeyK
— Busonzio (@Busonzio) February 27, 2019
When the Chelsea forwards decided to make a late-game push for another goal after Pedro's excellent strike in the 57th minute, the ball tumbled down to Trippier with no Blues player in his vicinity. The 28-year-old then decided to pass the ball to his keeper Hugo Lloris (at least that's what we think he wanted to do).
Typical defender move, right?
However, what Trippier did not realise was the fact that Lloris was running right towards him with the net completely unguarded. His skilful and unbelievably accurate shot thus placed the ball right in the bottom left corner of the goal post.
Within microseconds of sending the ball for an own goal, the British footballer had realised what a mess he had created, as his keeper stood still, shaking his head in disbelief.
The fiasco brought forward a five-year-old tweet the footballer had put up.
“Come on Chelsea,” he had said one year before he had signed with Tottenham in 2015.
Hotspur fans and well, fans of football in general were quick to jump on to the glorious internet to roast the unfortunate defender with the best memes they could think of:
ð¤£ Kieran Trippier. ð¤¦‍âï¸ð¤¦‍âï¸ð¤¦‍âï¸ #CHETOT pic.twitter.com/R6hLmoaOLD
— Sky Bet (@SkyBet) February 27, 2019
Kieran Trippier has always been a Chelsea fan pic.twitter.com/iFAr2bvwr5
— The Futbol Sphere (@TTOFz) February 27, 2019
Trippier has better 1v1 finishing than Morata. #CHETOT pic.twitter.com/eysZBdTvw4
— Naman Khandelwal (@yungnaman) February 27, 2019
Players that need to leave the club this Summer: Trippier Ben Davies Lamela Aurier Dier We can't be a top tier contender having these kind of players.
— Patrick Souza (@PatrickRSouza) February 28, 2019
Nobody: Kieran Trippier: pic.twitter.com/MpWUxGI13n
— Steven (@SPURSWlN) February 28, 2019
The internet never forgets…but you know that, right?

Until yesterday, Barbados, the island nation in the Caribbean, used to be known across the world for being the place where 'Friends' character Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) hooked up with Joey (Matt LeBlanc), but the Windies' 'Universe Boss', Chris Gayle, decided to change that last evening when he caused it to rain sixes on the island against the visiting England cricket team.
WHAT A KNOCK. Chris Gayle makes an incredible return to international cricket, reaching his 24th ODI hundred with a single off of Chris Woakes. It's come from exactly 100 balls. Clinical.#WIvENG | FOLLOW â¬ï¸ https://t.co/pQbWOWuEQM pic.twitter.com/0uUFCPJK4h
— ICC (@ICC) February 20, 2019
If 'Balls Lost' was a stat maintained by the International Cricket Council (ICC), it would have to be Chris Gayle's name on the top of the charts.
In a comeback match of his extremely successful career, the 39-year-old was able to get his 24th ODI century. He scored a massive 135 runs off 129 balls while having three 4s and 12 thunderous 6s to achieve this feat.
What is crazier than these numbers is the sheer strength Gayle continues to command. There are sixes that just make it beyond the boundary line and then there are the 'Gayle Storm' sixes that disappear somewhere on stadium rooftops or even go out of them. Yesterday, Barbados experienced one such storm.
During the beating he put on the Englishmen last evening, Gayle's 12 sixes included a monsterous maximum that travelled for more than 120-m with the ball nowhere to be found. However, the 'ball-finding' experts believe that it may quite possibly be resting on the decks of a ship docked in the adjacent port.
But that was just one of eight incidents when the umpires had to introduce a new white ball into the game because of Chris Gayle.
Running out of balls in Barbados#ENGvWI Gayle ð¥ð¥
— @RavitejaFan (@asisht84) February 20, 2019
Gayle looked like a batsman fresh in his prime during the first ODI between England and West Indies. Beating Shahid Afridi's record for the most number of sixes (476), Gayle got the top spot in that category when in the 14th over, Gayle sent another one out of the park on a Moeen Ali-delivery.
His new found form has come up after a couple of days since the athlete had publicly announced that he would be retiring from One-Day International cricket post ICC World Cup 2019.
Although Joe Root and the rest of the English squad was able to chase down the Windies' mammoth total of 360 runs to win the first ODI, Gayle's return to the Caribbean roster in such fashion, just a couple of months before the world cup is nothing but good new for his team.
Regardless, his fans were thoroughly entertained:
After many days : Gayle is back into team Ball is out of groundð¤£#WIvENG #BBCCricket #IPL
— Prem reddy (@premraina48) February 20, 2019
Universal Boss telling English kids how to hit ball out of the grnd. He is back with a bang #GayleStorm #gayle #universeboss #peak
— Mohd Shaarif Siddiqui (@siddiqui_sharif) February 20, 2019
Gayle storm is here for a biggie!!! Another one!! That's 3rd ball they have lost..#WIvENG
— Yogi (@yogasai1990) February 20, 2019
5th ball is lost ðð Chris gayle #WIvENG
— CRICKET LOVE (@CricketMyLove_) February 20, 2019
Could watch Chris Gayle bat all day. See ball, hit ball #WIvENG
— Mark Dignam (@MarkDignam_84) February 20, 2019
Chris Gayle knocking the ball out the park for fun
— WOOD (@LeeWood_14) February 20, 2019
Christopher Gayle!!! ð¥ð¥ð¥ Wowzers! Can we have the ball back please? ð #WIvENG
— Ryan (@iAmRyan1211) February 20, 2019